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Peter Dorsey, Chairdorsey@msmary.edu

B.A. St. Joseph's University;
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Interest:
Early American literature, including the literature of the American Revolution, African-American literature, the American Renaissance and American autobiography.

Thomas Bligh, Assistant Professor of English — bligh@msmary.edu

B.A. Mount St. Mary's University;
M.A. Miami University
Ph.D Florida State University

Areas of Interest:
creative writing, twentieth-century American literature, creative non-fiction, post-modern British novel

Robert Ducharme, University Professor — ducharme@msmary.edu

B.A., M.A. University of Notre Dame;
M.A. John Carroll University;
M.A. New York University;
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame

Areas of Interest:
film study, English Romanticism, Russian fiction, Japanese literature and culture,  Latin American fiction, and modern Irish literature

Mary Hamel, Professor of English — hamel@msmary.edu

B.A. University of Washington (Seattle);
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University

Areas of Interest:
ancient and medieval European literature, Chaucer, King Arthur, and the English language

Sr. Anne Higgins, Lecturer - ahiggins@msmary.edu

B.A. St. Joseph College, Emmitsburg
MLA The Johns Hopkins University

Areas of Interest:
creative writing, poetry, modern and contemporary poetry, Freshman Seminar

Carol Hinds, University Professor - hinds@msmary.edu

B.A. Saint Mary College;
M.A. (English) University of Kansas;
M.A. (Liberal Studies) St. John's College;
Ph.D. University of Virginia; Harvard University

Areas of Interest:
eighteenth-century British literature, The Catholic Imagination, Victorian literature

Roberta LePage McFadden, Assistant Professor of English - mcfadden@msmary.edu

B.A. St. Olaf College;
M.A., Ph.D. Fordham University

Areas of Interest:
seventeenth-century British prose and nineteenth-century Romanitc poetry

Indrani Mitra, Associate Professor of English — mitra@msmary.edu

B.A. Presidency College (India);
M.A. University of Calcutta;
Ph.D. Kent State University

Areas of Interest:
post-colonial literature from Africa, India, and the Caribbean countries; non-Western women writers; gender and cultural studies

Sarah Scott, Assistant Professor of English — sscott@msmary.edu

B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder;
M.A., Ph.D. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Areas of Interest:
Shakespeare and early modern drama, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies

David Wehner, Assistant Professor of English — wehner@msmary.edu

B.A. Williams College;
M.A. University of Colorado at Boulder;
Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Areas of Interest:
nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, history and theory of secularization

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